For almost three centuries, European linguists, anthropologists and geneticists have been searching for the true origins of the Indo-European, or Aryan, peoples. Many of us identify the term Aryan with German National Socialism, while some Jewish and liberal academics propose that Aryans are non-existent people invented by Hitler to enhance a feeling of Germanic supremacy. This is of course false. Aryan is both a linguistic tradition as well as a common culture, or rather a number of cultures which share the same common ancestry.